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WXYC had a pretty wyld 4^th of July.  How was yours?  Ease off of this holiday week with a few days of cool programming at WXYC.  Check out what’s coming up:

Friday night at 9 PM on the Inside track we're excited to present Immaterial Visions, the recently-released 2nd LP from The KVB. The KVB are UK sorcerers Klaus Von Barrel and Kat Day, who combine shoegaze guitar, minimal synth, pulsing drum machines, and gauzy vocals in a sticky stew of dancefloor darkness.

James F returns on Hell or High Water at 2 pm as he presents more archival radio broadcasts from WPAQ-Mt Airy's "Merry-Go-Round", a live radio show that featured (and continues to feature) some of the best old time and bluegrass musicians from Surry County and surrounding areas.

This Sunday's Broken Music at 2 PM will be the first part of a two week examination of the works of Dutch sound artist Felix Hess. Born in The Hague in 1941, Hess studied and worked as a nuclear physicist for almost 20 years until a lifelong interest in the interplay between natural communication systems and analytic codes blossomed into an almost 30-year career of both musical pieces and sound installations. In his work Hess creates semi-autonomous sound recording devices to capture 'natural' communication sources as disparate as air pressure fluctuations from a geyser, rushing water and frog calls and then processes them electronically (similar to the works of, among others, Rolf Julius and Akio Suzuki). This week's show will focus on Hess's earliest recordings as he was turning his full attention towards his musical endeavors. 

This week on Sunday at 8 PM Harrison will be hosting the Carrboro- based musician Ezekiel Graves on The Backyard BBQ.  Zeke has been closely involved with local music in a variety of contexts for many years. In the early 2000s he was one of the core members of the Carrboro based experimental post- punk band, Cold Sides. After that he spearheaded a "dubwise electro" project called Datahata. Today he focuses on an american primitive, folk, and old time project, and this is the kind of music he will perform on the show. He has also become an accomplished banjo- maker which should make for some interesting interview material.

Catch up with Sports Rap right after at 9 PM for a recap of the biggest news in sports last week.  Tune in to welcome the new Sports Rap coordinator, Reilly F

9 PM Monday night on the Outside Track we are throwing a welcome back party for Colleen (Cécile Schott.) The Weighing of the Heart is Colleen's 4th album, her first after a 6 year hiatus. She has returned with her guitar, clarinet, piano, toy gamelan, frame drum, voice (for the first time!), and an array of other instruments to deliver compositions at once restrained and lush.  Tune in!